It's Constitution Week, and my son Sean, who just turned 7, is always proud to have been born during the week that we celebrate one of the greatest works ever printed.
As part of that celebration, check out his recent version of the Star-Spangled Banner. It's sung in a number of different keys, an apparent but unspoken reference perhaps to Francis Scott Key, who wrote our national anthem.
We're still working with him on the actual lyrics. Near as I can tell, this is the way he interpreted it:
Oh say can you seeBy the dawn’s early light
What so proudly we hailed
By the twilight’s last gleaming
Whose stripes and bright stars
Through the perilous fight
Those cartoons that we watched
Were so powerfully screaming
And the red rocket’s ??? glare
And our flag was still there
Oh say does that Star - Spangled Banner make sense
Of the land of the free
And the home of the braves?
Is there a parent out there who can't relate to the screaming cartoon reference?
And for a great resource on Constitution Day, visit the National Constitution Center, made possible through the Annenberg Foundation and the Pew Charitable Trusts.
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